Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity / Jonathan M. Hess.
Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity / Jonathan M. Hess.
Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity / Jonathan M. Hess.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
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N833.70989/1
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English
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xiii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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When rabbis became novelists : the emergence of Jewish literature in nineteenth-century Germany -- Under the sword of the Spanish inquisition : the Sephardic legacy and the making of middlebrow classics -- Leopold Kompert and the pleasures of nostalgia : ghetto fiction and the creation of a usable p...
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
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California
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c2010.
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"For generations of German-speaking Jews, the works of Goethe and Schiller epitomized the world of European high culture, a realm that Jews actively participated in as both readers and consumers. Yet from the 1830s on, Jews writing in German also produced a vast corpus of popular fiction that was explicitly Jewish in content, audience, and function...
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Middlebrow literature and the making of German-Jewish identity / Jonathan M. Hess.
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-249) and index.
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c2010.
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N833.70989/1
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74VvdoZa7AqO
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0804761221 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804761222 (cloth : alk. paper)
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833.7098924
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991005965699702626
